Dr. Il Min Kim

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Biography

Il-Min Kim received a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1996, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. From July 1997 to August 2001, he worked as a Part-Time Engineer at the Electronics Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). Afterward, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from October 2001 to August 2002, followed by a position in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University from September 2002 to June 2003. In July 2003, Kim joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, starting as an Assistant Professor and advancing to Associate Professor in 2009 and Full Professor in 2014. He currently serves as the Head of the ECE Department and Director of the Ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (UAI Lab). His awards include the Prize at the Dense Video Captioning Challenge CVsports Workshop CVPR 2024 and the President’s Award from the Korean Federation of Science Technology Societies (KOFST) in 2021. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Research Interests

Agentic AI Multiple AI Agents Memory Communications AI Physical Systems Robots Few-Shot Learning Continual Learning Vision Language Models Chain-of-Thought LLMs Safe AI Responsible AI Universal Equity AI Governance AI Alignment AI Healthcare Applications Federated Learning Distributed Learning/Computing Diffusion Models Generative AI Safe Generative AI Out-of-Distribution Detection Applications AI IoT IoE IIoT Mobile Crowd Sensing AI-Driven 6th Generation Wireless Systems AI-Driven Vehicle-To-Everything Communications Geoscience AI

Courses

Final Year Project (ELEC 490) Probability Random Processes (ELEC 326) Signals and Systems (ELEC 224) Signals and Systems (ELEC 323) Wireless Communications (ELEC 464) Fundamentals of Electromagnetics (ELEC 280) Electricity and Magnetism (APSC 112) MIMO Communications Systems (ELEC 869) Digital Communication (ELEC 867)

Requirements for Queen's University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:88
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Honours Bachelor degree Background in Computing, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering
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Specialization Notes

Department of Computing offers research-based, project-based, and course-based patterns.